Posts Tagged ‘Journalist’

PETITION! Lift Travel Restrictions on Palestinian Journalist

This item was filled under [ Action, Freedom of Speech, Israel, Media, Palestine ]

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!SIGN THE PETITION To: Israeli and Palestinian Authorities -Palestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh, who lives in the West Bank, has been invited to attend a media conference in [...]

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How to Become an Israeli Journalist

This item was filled under [ Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Israel, Media, Palestine ]

A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at Ma’ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian projects. At my interview the boss asked how I could possibly be objective. I had spent too much time with Palestinians; I [...]

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Needed in Gaza: Israeli journalists

This item was filled under [ Gaza, Israel, Media, Palestine ]

Gaza had become a closed territory, without any media coverage or documentation. Such is Israeli freedom of the press.
Anyone who expected such an intolerable reality to stir a protest was proven wrong. In any case, the readers do not want to read about it, the government and army do not want them to know and [...]

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National Union of Journalists in UK votes to boycott Israeli goods and calls for sanctions

This item was filled under [ Israel, Media, UK ]

The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in Lebanon.
Today’s vote was carried 66 to 54 - a result that met with gasps and a small amount of applause from the union delegates present…
The motion called for [...]

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Sharon, Why Did You Destroy My House?

This item was filled under [ Israel, Media, Palestine, Terrorism, USA, War Crimes, Zionism ]

Palestinian journalist, Mohammed Omer, age 22, winner of the best Ethnic Media Award, organized by New America Media in Washington DC.
His story sheds the light on the daily suffer and human details of Palestinian family who was turned to homeless as Israeli Occupation Forces destroyed their home in the refugee camp of Rafah, south [...]

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Journalist under fire!

This item was filled under [ Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Israel, Media, Palestine, Terrorism, War ]

About the targeting of Ramattan News Agency staff in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. But that’s not all, two reporters shot by Israeli forces, making seven reporters attacked in 10 days.

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Egypt Journalists Under Fire

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Three journalists charged with defamation; three others assaulted, another abducted by mob; several journalists assaulted by authorities; five journalists’ detentions extended. [Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)]

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Asking the Blogosphere: Is the media telling the real story on Iraq?

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Let’s have good news from Iraq, please. No! Not possible? Why?
Rebecca MacKinnon - Global Voices: How does the nature, quality, and content of media coverage of the Iraq war ultimately impact the lives of people in Iraq, the Middle East and around the planet?
In your country, how does the media’s Iraq coverage rate? Fair and [...]

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U.S. Ranks Sixth Among Countries Jailing Journalists

This item was filled under [ Algeria, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Libya, Media, Morocco, Sabbah, Tunisia ]

The United States has tied with Myanmar (the former Burma) for sixth place among countries that are holding the most journalists behind bars, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Each country is jailing five journalists. The United States is holding four Iraqi journalists in detention centers in Iraq and one [...]

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Al Jazeera reporter arrested in West Bank

SOURCE: Reporters sans frontičres (RSF), Paris
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Palestinian journalist Awad Rajoub on 30 November 2005 at his home in Doura, 10 km from the West Bank city of Hebron. The organisation called on the Israeli military to explain why he is still being held. Rajoub reports for
the Arabic-language website [...]

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Will lawmakers raise shields to protect bloggers?

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Will lawmakers raise shields to protect bloggers?
A heads up for bloggers and other independent journalists on the status of shield laws and constitutional protections — or lack thereof.

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Shidyak Targeted In Car Bomb

This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Lebanon, Media, Sabbah ]

Sorry, no good news this week!

Lebanese Journalist, May Shidyak, a television journalist critical of Syria was seriously wounded when a bomb exploded inside her car north of Beirut, security sources and her LBC television station said on Sunday. Shidyak (aka. Chidiac), a Christian news anchor well known in Lebanon, was taken to hospital and was [...]

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